一部关于性别、性取向和抵抗的土著传统的全面历史揭示了,尽管存在几个世纪的殖民主义,但两个精神民族正在重新夺回他们在土著民族中的地位。
收回两个灵魂使北美土著的性别和性的历史非殖民化。它向几代土著人民致敬,他们有远见地将其文化生活和精神信仰的基本方面埋在地下,以拯救他们。
1492年之前,北美有数百个土著社区,其中包括既不是男性也不是女性,而是两者兼而有之的人。他们去拜亚基的斯卡西、米亚蒂、奥基茨塔克韦,或者其他数百个部落特有的身份之一。欧洲殖民者入侵印度后,数百年的暴力和系统性迫害随之而来,威胁着今天自称为。。。
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.
Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had the foresight to take essential aspects of their cultural life and spiritual beliefs underground in order to save them.
Before 1492, hundreds of Indigenous communities across North America included people who identified as neither male nor female, but both. They went byaakíí’skassi,miati,okitcitakwe, or one of hundreds of other tribally specific identities. After European colonizers invaded Indian Country, centuries of violence and systematic persecution followed, imperiling the existence of people who today call themselves…
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